Surface Book with Performance Base: MrMobile's Next Notebook?

This year's Surface Book is much the same as last year's — but only from the waist up. Below the Dynamic Fulcrum Hinge on the Surface Book 2016 sits the all-new Performance Base, which packs bigger batteries, a redesigned cooling system and a GPU that Microsoft claims to be twice as powerful as last year's. I got the chance to see the Surface Book 2016 up close at Microsoft's big launch event in New York City last month, and now I've got a top-of-the-line Surface Book review unit in the Boston studio!

With Apple's elimination of the SD card reader and full-size USB ports on its new notebooks still grinding my gears, I'm scouring the market for a MacBook Pro alternative. Could the Surface Book Performance be my next notebook? Click on through to Part 1 of MrMobile's Surface Book 2016 review – and stay tuned for Part 2 coming next week!

I would encourage the author to do some battery life benchmarking with and without Chrome. That means that you need to completely remove all traces of Chromium including Slack to get an accurate portrayal of battery life for the out of box experience. If you choose to use Chrome, that is fine but people should know that battery life will take a hit because of excessive session state data being cached in the background. This also applies to Firefox, Spotify and it could apply to anything that is using Chromium like Slack. It isn't just anecdotal. https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-f...